House of Pride

House of Pride was a Canadian television soap opera, which aired on CBC Television from 1974 to 1976.[1]

This article is about the Canadian soap opera. For the fictional palace in Edmund Spenser's 16th-century epic poem The Faerie Queene, see House of Pride (Faerie Queene).

The series opened with the death of family patriarch Dan Pride (George Waite), and focused on the families of his five adult children.[2] Each of the families lived in a different Canadian city; the series had production units in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax.[3]

The cast included Charmion King, Lynne Griffin, Budd Knapp, Linda Sorenson, Colin Fox, Murray Westgate and Sébastien Dhavernas.

References
  1. Mary Jane Miller, Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama Since 1952. University of British Columbia Press, 1987.
  2. "House of Pride: sweetening regional pill". The Globe and Mail, June 8, 1974.
  3. "Jalna-type series planned by CBC". The Globe and Mail, July 13, 1973.


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